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“The Holdfast” articulates the belief that human salvation cannot be achieved through any human virtues or righteousness, but solely depends on the divine will. This poem is one of a series that critiques human rationalism and celebrates the Reformation doctrine of grace. Herbert encapsulates the teachings about divine grace in the form of a sonnet in this work.

George Herbert  “The Holdfast”

The Holdfast

                                  George Herbert

I threatened to observe the strict decree

Of my deare God with all my power & might.

But I was told by one, it could not be;

Yet I might trust in God to be my light.

Then I will trust, said I, in him alone.

Nay, ev’n to trust in him, was also his:

We must confesse that nothing is our own.

Then I confesse that he my succour is:

But to have nought is ours, not to confesse

That we have nought. I stood amaz’d at this,

Much troubled, till I heard a friend expresse,

That all things were more ours by being his.

What Adam had, and forfeited for all,

Christ keepeth now, who cannot fail or fall.

– George Herbert “The Holdfast”-

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